Portland Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims. The Portland Company, a corporation of Maine, filed a petition in the court just named to recover the drawback allowed by'the 17th section of the act of June 30th, 1864,* on certain locomotive-eiigines exported by them. The engines were manufactured by the company under a contract with the United States, and the internal revenue.tax thereon was paid.
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Appeal from the Court of Claims. The Portland Company, a corporation of Maine, filed a petition in the court just named to recover the drawback allowed by'the 17th section of the act of June 30th, 1864,* on certain locomotive-eiigines exported by them. The engines were manufactured by the company under a contract with the United States, and the internal revenue.tax thereon was paid. Afterwards the engines were sold by the government at public auction, and the company bought them. The Court of Claims dismissed the petition, and the claimants appealed. ' On the case being called, January 8th,…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE,
delivering the judgment of the court, said:
From time to time, the court has adopted rules of practice intended to facilitate the presentation of causes by couusel and their consideration by the court. Finding that these rules, through the inattention of the bar, had failed in a great degree of their intended effect, we promulgated at the last term and for the same end, an amended twenty-first rule, the fourth section of which required that the brief should contain, in the order there stated:
First, a concise abstract or statement presenting succinctly the questions iuvolved,…
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